Ibn Sina Is First Robot To Chat In Arabic
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 26 of October , 2009 at 3:22 am
This is Hussain ibn Abdullah ibn Hassan ibn Ali ibn-E-Sina, but you can just call him Ibn Sina. And he’s doing fine, Thanks To God. Ibn Sina is the world’s first Arabic speaking humanoid robot, under development at the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) of the United Arab Emirates University. While the robot itself is authentically Arab, you can thank the French for the fact that he’s so talkative… His vocal engine (called “Nizar”) comes from a French company called Acapela that develops natural language software.
Ibn Sina is named after a Persian physician and philosopher who lived about a thousand years ago. He’s more than happy to talk about whatever you want, using natural conversational steps and responding to language cues… Just make sure you don’t ask him about chicks.
[ IRML ] VIA [ Gulfnews ] and [ Gizmo Watch ]
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Uncanny Valley
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Comment by zabun
Made Tuesday, 27 of October , 2009 at 11:53 am
Ibn-i Sina(Avicenna)was actually Turkish; not Persian, not Arabian.
Comment by Anastasios-Antonios Toulkeridis
Made Wednesday, 28 of October , 2009 at 9:55 am
i’d burn it with fire
Comment by Darya
Made Tuesday, 3 of November , 2009 at 7:31 pm
They don’t have any right to make such a clown out of the greatest Persian philosopher. This is just ridiculous.
Comment by ibn sina persian
Made Monday, 8 of February , 2010 at 1:52 am
hello he was Persian, Sina is Persian name, Ibn Sina buried in Persian city Hamadan, and wrote in PERSIAN, even when Arabic was most used language.
bn Sīnā states in his book “Al-Shifā”:[
since the Turks and Africans live in harsh territories which are not suitable for the cultivation of intellectualism, consequently they are far away from knowledge and thus obliged to serve the people of the city of virtue ..
Comment by ibn sina persian
Made Monday, 8 of February , 2010 at 1:54 am
major Encyclopedia’s like the prestigious Encyclopedia of Islam, Iranica, Britannica call him Persian. He contributed to Persian scientific writing and even coined pure Persian terms and wrote Persian poetry. There is no controversy or debate on this issue among Western specialists and usually the only controversy and so called “debates” comes from neighboring people of Iranian/Persians. Even the family name “Sina”(Saena) is not Arabic actually, it is Persian (many Persians like many Muslims have Arabic names, but not many Arabs have Persian surnames like Sina).
Comment by ibn sina persian
Made Monday, 8 of February , 2010 at 1:55 am
Ibn Sina’s native language was Persian and It was very rare for scientists at that time to write in Persian (Persian was not a scientific language at the time of Ibn Sina, yet he made it a scientific language) and even compose Persian poetry, but Ibn Sina can be considered one of the founding fathers of this trend with his Persian scientific writings like Danesh-nama ‘Alai and Rag-Shenaasi. So again, this is not a place for comproises and debates on well known fact which are accepted in Western specialist and scientific circles, but might be “debatable” in some countries (Turkey, Arabia).